Monday, May 02, 2016

Now open for submissions at twbw@castaliahouse.com. Publication will be in late November or early December of this year. Reprint anthology, but original works are eligible; three original fiction stories in Volume X were nominated for Hugos; winners will be announced at MidAmericon II in August. Although unpublished works will be considered, there is no additional payment beyond payment for reprint rights, and first publication rights remain with the author (until, of course, they expire at publication of this volume).

Payment is $200 on acceptance. This is an advance against royalties. Royalties are a pro rata share of 50% of all royalties due from the publisher (the other 50% is to the editor). We buy non-exclusive anthology rights. Publisher is Castalia House, which will make advances and royalty payments directly to the contributors. Again, payment is the same for previously published and previously unpublished works. Story selection is by me (the editor). Editor’s contribution will include a volume introduction and introductions to each contribution, and may include more as I judge necessary.

Submissions can be fiction or non-fiction of under 20,000 words relevant to the future of warfare. Previous volumes have included stories of ground combat, interplanetary and interstellar naval engagements, “space opera”, terrorism, a major essay in asymmetric warfare by a professor of military history, and articles from military journals. Most works to be included have been previously published. Submissions accepted until October 2016, or until announcement that the volume is filled.

Two classic stories by well-known award-winning authors have already been accepted, others are expected. I emphasize that payment of an advance against royalties is on acceptance.

Previous volumes have included stories of ground combat, interplanetary and interstellar naval engagements, “space opera”, terrorism, a major essay in asymmetric warfare by a professor of military history, and articles from military journals.

Just to make the obvious statement: this is the kind of announcement that used to be made by brick and mortar publishing houses. But they decided that they did not want this market anymore, that were-seals were more relevant and important.

The monetary profits, the cache’, the potential Hugo awards, etc. now all belong to Castalia House. If This Goes On, as a great writer once said someday the Castalia House motto may be:

Gay jewish german politician chased http://www.thedailysheeple.com/germans-shout-down-and-chase-pro-migrant-minister_052016"Fortunately Heiko Maas received a populist reality check yesterday at the hands of an outraged crowd of working class citizens, during a May Day celebration speech. He was repeatedly called a “traitor” and a “leftist rat,” and was eventually chased off the stage."

Vox, while you have his attention, see if you can get a couple of more Republic and Empire anthologies out of him, given the state of the US and Western Europe today, some of the more political works would be about as timely as TWBW stories............

I have no doubt this reading list would have astonished the late professor of my macroeconomics class, who was less bothered by my usual failure to attend class than by the fact that I never bothered to buy the textbook.

Attending class can be a pain in the rear, especially for a giddy to be away from home for the first time freshman. My calc class was a five hour class, half lecture and half practice. Prof announced the entire grade would be based on four tests. But so many opted not to attend practice that he decided after it was too late to count the practice quizzes as another test. Boink.